Carriage-curtain-roller bracket



(No Model.)

G. W. BEERS. I CARRIAGE CURTAIN ROLLER BRACKET. No. 265,564.

Patented O0t.10, 1882.

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N. PETERS. Phom-Lnlwgrnplve UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. BEERS, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

CARRIAGE -CURTAIN-ROLLER BRA CKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 265,564, dated October 10, 1882.

(No model To all whom it'may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. BEERs, of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Roller-Posts for Carriage-Curtains; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyin g drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

My invention relates to the construction of posts for the swinging-curtain rollers in landau carriages; and its object is to prevent the free end of the roller from working out of its seat in the post, and to preventalso itsrattling therein and render it wholly noiseless.

It consists in the combination of aspringactuated detaining-pin with the body of the post, so that, although concealed therein in such manner as to not mar the appearance of the post, its end shall bear with an elastic press; ure upon thejonrnal-pin-at the end oftheroller to hold it closely in place and yet allow its free revolution and ready removal, as required.

in the accompanying drawings, Figure l is an elevation of a landau-carriage curtain and roller; Fig. 2 a top view of the free end of the roller in its seat; and Fig. 3, a section in line w w of Fig. 2.

A is the curtain-roller, and B the swivelpost, to which one end of the roller is secured, and which permits the roller to drop to a vertical position when its opposite end is released from the journal-post C.

The free end of the roller A is fitted with a journal-pin, D, Figs. 2 and 3, adapted to rest in the seat formed for its reception in the journal-post C. Ordinarily thejournal-pin D is apt to spring from its bearing in the post C, and, resting loosely in the bearings, is subject to constant rattlingwhen the carriage is in motion. This is prevented in the construction of the improved post C by means of a detainingpin, E, (see Fig. 3,) fitted in an aperture drilled through the body of the post from the rear at such an angle as that the front end of the detaining'pin shall project over and bear upon the upper side of the journal-pin when it is resting properly in its bearings. The outward projection of the detaining-pin E is determined byineans of a shoulder, W, thereon, adapted to strike against an offset in the aperture in the post, and it is forced outward by means of a spiral spring, G, encircling its inner end. (see -Fig.3,) the spring and pin being confined within the aperture in the post by means of a screw, H, which closes its outer end.

In operation the end of the detaining-pin E, bearing with an elastic pressure upon thejournal-pin D of the curtain-roller, (see Figs. 2 and 3,) serves to hold it closely and securely in place without interfering with its rotation, but with sufficient firmness to prevent it from rattling or from springing accidentally from its seat. VVhen,however, it is required to swing the roller down to open the carriage-top (see dotted lines, Fig. 1) thejournal-pin may be lifted from its seat with very little exertion, the elastic (letainingpin yielding readily to such an efi'ort.

1 claim as my invention- The combination, with a carriage-curtain post, C, of a spring-actuated detaining-pin, E, concealed and confined within the post, a-nd adapted to bearoutwardly with an elasticpressare upon the upper side of the journal-pin of the curtain-roller when adjusted to its bearing in the post,'substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

In testimony whereot'I have signed myname to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE V. B EERS. 

